Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A computer-implemented method of forwarding email messages, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors: accessing a first email message addressed to a first email address of a user, the first email message containing message content; generating a second email message based on the first email message and a universal resource locator (URL) identifying the first email message, the second email message lacking a first portion of the message content of the first email message, while including a second portion of the message content of the first email message and a link that is selectable to access the entire first email message via the URL; sending the second email message to a second email address of the user that is different than the first email address; and in response to a selection of the link in the second email message, generating and serving a web page including the first email message and at least one advertisement.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first email message with the at least one advertisement is served from a web-based email service.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: prompting the user for input of a user login prior to serving the first email message with the at least one advertisement.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second email message does not allow the user to respond to a sender of the first email message by replying from the second email message.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user is allowed to reply to a sender of the first email message from the second email message.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second email message includes a link that is selectable to change email settings.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second email message includes a link that is selectable to delete the first email.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the link requests the URL for serving the first email message along with the at least one advertisement.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the link is encoded with information to inhibit unauthorized access to the first email message.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of an email address, a token, and a timestamp are encoded in the link.
11. A system for forwarding e-mail messages, the system comprising: a tangible memory device storing instructions; and at least one processor that, when executing the instructions stored in the tangible memory device, is configured to: access a first email message addressed to a first email address of a user, the first email message containing message content; generate a second email message based on the first email message and a universal resource locator (URL) identifying the first email message, the second email message lacking a first portion of the message content of the first email message, while including a second portion of the message content of the first email message and a link that is selectable to access the entire first email message via the URL; send the second email message to a second email address of the user that is different than the first email address; and in response to a selection of the link in the second email message, generate and serve a web page including the first email message and at least one advertisement.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first email message with the at least one advertisement is served from a web-based email service.
13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor, when executing the instructions, is further configured to: prompt the user for input of a user login prior to serving the first email message with the at least one advertisement.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the second e-mail message does not allow the user to respond to a sender of the first email message by replying from the second email message.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the user is allowed to reply to a sender of the first email message from the second email message.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the second email message includes a link that is selectable to change email settings.
17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second email message includes a link that is selectable to delete the first email.
18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the selection of the link requests the URL for serving the first email message along with the at least one advertisement.
19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the link is encoded with information to inhibit unauthorized access to the first email message.
20. The system of claim 11 , wherein at least one of an email address, a token, and a timestamp are encoded in the link.
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July 14, 2015
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